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Commemorating Festive Performances in Popular Print in Sixteenth‐Century Italy☆

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 5, Page 632-657, November 2025.
Abstract The aim of this article is to show that the popular print sold and distributed during and after festive events, such as Carnival, had an impact on the commemoration and shaping of festive culture in early modern Italy. That is, the mass medium of print that had begun to shape European cultures, especially in Italy where Venice was one of ...
Rozanne Versendaal
wiley   +1 more source

The Spectacularization of NGOs Accountability in Disaster Situations: Evidence From the 2015 Nepal's Earthquakes

open access: yesFinancial Accountability &Management, Volume 41, Issue 3, Page 490-507, August 2025.
ABSTRACT Drawing on Guy Debord's concept of the spectacle, this article aims to extend our understanding of the way in which certain non‐governmental organizations (NGOs) spectacularize their performance in the context of disaster situations and the continued co‐existence of a multiplicity of accountabilities, with reference to the 2015 Nepal ...
Pawan Adhikari   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lawnmower Poetry and the Poetry of Lawnmowers

open access: yes
Critical Quarterly, Volume 68, Issue 1, Page 4-42, April 2026.
Francesca Gardner
wiley   +1 more source

Mikhail Bakhtin's Rabelais and His World: A Practitioner's Reading

open access: yesAustralian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, Volume 46, Issue 2, June 2025.
ABSTRACT While Bakhtin's contribution to dialogical practice includes his conceptualisation of dialogue and polyphony, the literature on dialogical therapies including Open Dialogue makes little if any mention of another of his major contributions, Rabelais and his world.
Kristof Mikes‐Liu
wiley   +1 more source

What exactly is a family man? Performing and precluding respectable fatherhood in Dominica

open access: yesEthos, Volume 53, Issue 2, June 2025.
Abstract How does a father come to be regarded as a “family man” in the Caribbean? By tracking the stories and strivings of various Dominican men who seek recognition as dedicated fathers, this essay unfolds complex answers to this seemingly simple question.
Adom Philogene Heron
wiley   +1 more source

A Redneck Head on a Nazi Body. Subversive Ludo-Narrative Strategies in Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus

open access: yesArts, 2018
This article argues that Wolfenstein: The New Colossus, a AAA First-Person Shooter, is not only politically themed, but presents in itself a critical engagement with the politics of its genre and its player base.
Hans-Joachim Backe
doaj   +1 more source

Carnivalesque Grotesque as a Mode of Subversion: A Bakhtinian Study of Elif Shafak’s The Architect’s Apprentice

open access: yesLitera: Dil, Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi
Elif Shafak’s The Architect’s Apprentice (2014) transcends a mere narrative, transforming into a potential critique of power structures. This study explores how Shafak’s novel subverts the established regime and questions the power politics that exploit ...
Sadia Irshad, Ayesha Hanif, Maria Farooq
doaj   +1 more source

The Haunted World of El Superbeasto (Rob Zombie, 2009): An Animated Exploitation of Exploitation Cinema

open access: yesTransatlantica, 2016
It could be argued that, like any exploitation movie, Rob Zombie’s 2009 animation film, while dealing with transgressive issues, relies on scandalous material in order to “exploit” specific niche audiences.
Pierre Floquet
doaj   +1 more source

Quand les murs de béton muets se transforment en un carnaval de couleur

open access: yesCahiers de Narratologie, 2016
This paper develops a pragmatist definition of street art acknowledging its essential subversiveness, while drawing implications at the level of street art’s political and social function.
Andrea Baldini
doaj   +1 more source

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